.\" This file is distributed under the same license as the ibus
.\" package.
.\" Copyright (C) Takao Fujiwara <takao.fujiwara1@gmail.com>, 2013.
.\" Copyright (c) Peng Huang <shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>, 2013.
.\"
.TH IBUS-DAEMON "1" "April 2010" "@VERSION@" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
.B ibus\-daemon
\- daemon program for ibus

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ibus\-daemon
[\fIOPTION\fR]...

.SH DESCRIPTION

.PP
IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux
OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user
interface.  It also may help developers to develop input method easily.

.PP
.B ibus\-daemon
is a daemon program for ibus and it is also a start up program for users
to activate ibus daemon, engines and panel.

.SS "Help Options:"
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Show help options

.SS "Application Options:"
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-daemonize\fR
run ibus as background process.
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-single\fR
do not execute panel and config module.
.TP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-xim\fR
execute ibus XIM server.
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-desktop\fR=\fIname\fR
specify the name of desktop session. [default=gnome]
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-panel\fR=\fIcmdline\fR
specify the cmdline of panel program.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-config\fR=\fIcmdline\fR
specify the cmdline of config program.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-address\fR=\fIaddress\fR
specify the address of ibus daemon.
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-replace\fR
if there is an old ibus\-daemon is running, it will be replaced.
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-cache\fR=\fImode\fR [default is auto]
force to re\-scan components, and re\-create registry cache.
auto, refresh, none is available.
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-timeout\fR=\fItimeout\fR [default is 2000]
dbus reply timeout in milliseconds.
.TP
\fB\-j\fR, \fB\-\-monitor\-timeout\fR=\fItimeout\fR [default is 0]
timeout of poll changes of engines in seconds. 0 to disable it.
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-mem\-profile\fR
enable memory profile, send SIGUSR2 to print out the memory profile.
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
verbose.

.SH BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ibus (1)
